My previous post was off of the point a bit, but what I was trying
to say in my inimitable pithy/occult way was that I didn't think
that the rapture was meant to abnegate the resurrection myth, but
that it was a (perhaps gratuitous) adjunct to it. Just a bad
interpretation of Revelation, driven by a need to know how the
world will end, as well as yet another inducement to live the good
(godly) life.
Neither is dispensationism necessarily "bad theology". Or rather,
no worse than the rest of the christian theology that I'm familliar
with.
Slacktivist says, "A theology that denies the reality, mystery and
meaning of death is ultimately irrelevant for us mere mortals". But
that's exactly what most christians seem to believe. Christ dies,
yet rises again in three days! Voila, death has lost its sting!
We're going to live forever! Woo hoo!
This is too complicated for a thread to cover, and it is late. I do
understand that certain people are into revenge, whatever the
original reason for the genesis of the rapture idea. The point I
wanted to make is that I don't think that this particular theology
is any crueler than mainstream christian thought, and is no more or
less a denial of death than mainstream christian thought. Perhaps
more triumphalist, though.
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